Archive - Jon Kalish

Feldman has written a memoir of his travels in the musical diasporas of New York City. scene.

3 mins ago • Jon Kalish

For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis

Jews arrived here in the 19th century to serve in the Russian army — today, a little more than 1,000 remain.

10 hrs ago • Jon Kalish

Off-The-Derech actor Luzer Twersky plays the founder of Hasidic Judaism in a film about the Ukrainian Robin Hood.

11 hrs ago • Jon Kalish

Trauma Therapist Lisa Fliegel

A Boston trauma therapist went to Israel to care for the survivors of the October 7th massacres by Hamas.

11 hrs ago • Jon Kalish

Lower East Side Shtiebel Struggles to Survive

A tiny synagogue, or shtiebel, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan is trying to maintain a minyan, the quorum of 10 men needed to recite certain…

11 hrs ago • Jon Kalish

The Twersky Rabbinical Dynasty

An exhaustive history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty published in a coffee table book. Read this story published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

11 hrs ago • Jon Kalish

Just Desserts is a Musical Bake-Off

The new musical brings a county fair baking contest to the Off-Broadway stage

Jan 24 • Jon Kalish

The Hasidic St. Francis of Kings County

20 hens are alive and well about 300 feet from Lubavitcher World Headquarters as the crow flies. Had to get that bird reference in.

Jan 16 • Jon Kalish

A half-hour documentary on the late performance artist Spalding Gray commissioned by KCRW in the aftermath of his suicide.

Jan 15 • Jon Kalish

This 20-minute piece on the friendship between the Santa Monica writer Hank Rosenfeld and the Golden Age screenwriter Irving Brecher was originally…

Jan 5 • Jon Kalish

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Industrial Musicals

An hour-long audio piece about industrial musicals done as a fictional radio show. Produced with a grant from PRX.

Jan 3 • Jon Kalish

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A half-hour radio documentary on the counterfeiting operation at a Nazi concentration camp. Commissioned by KCRW.

Jan 3 • Jon Kalish

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